According to the Patriot Ledger, David A. Collier, 55, was arrested Tuesday afternoon after allegedly stealing items from several city buildings, including the hospital, Quincy College and the Granite Trust Company building.

Quincy police Lt. John Steele said officers caught Collier walking down Furnace Brook Parkway about 20 minutes after a worker at Quincy Medical Center reported seeing a suspicious man going through employee lockers. Collier had an iPad stuffed in his pants, police said.

“That’s not how I carry my iPad,” Steele said.

Collier was arraigned Wednesday in Quincy District Court and charged with breaking and entering during the daytime, larceny from a building, larceny over $250 and receiving stolen property over $250. He is being held on $10,000 bail and due back in court May 28.

He had three outstanding warrants, and there are more than 200 entries in his probation record, Steele told the paper.

In 2008, Collier was arrested and charged with stealing money and purses from Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton. At that time, he was also a suspect in similar thefts at two Boston-area hospitals.

“He is very well known in the Greater Boston area,” Steele said. “He has a long history of going into hospitals, colleges and universities and doing just what he did Tuesday.”

At about 2 p.m. Tuesday, a Quincy Medical Center employee called police to report a suspicious-looking man at the lockers, Steele said. Another hospital worker in a different section of the building later told police her purse had been stolen.

When confronted by hospital workers, Collier fled the building, jumped over a 6-foot fence in the parking lot and ran through a residential neighborhood, according to witnesses.

Police said they found that Collier had an iPad and other items that were later determined to be stolen. The iPad belonged to a worker in the Granite Trust Company building on Hancock Street, Steele said.

Steele said police are still trying to figure out who owns some of the items they recovered. Some of the items reported stolen in Quincy, including the hospital worker’s purse, were still missing as of Friday.